There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERAfter long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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